Definitions for leavening

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leavening leav·en·ing

Spelling: [lev-uh-ning]

IPA: /ˈlɛv ə nɪŋ/

Leavening is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 316 anagrams from letters in leavening (aeegilnnv).

Definitions for leavening

noun

1. Also called leavening agent. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or batter; leaven.
2. the act or process of causing to ferment by leaven.
3. leaven (def 3).
4. a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
5. fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough.
6. an element that produces an altering or transforming influence.

verb (used with object)

1. to add leaven to (dough or batter) and cause to rise.
2. to permeate with an altering or transforming element.

Origin of leavening

First recorded in 1600-10; leaven + -ing¹

Examples for leavening

There was a leavening of women in this male mass of loggers, fishermen, and what-not.

As is known by this time, leavening agents are the materials used to leaven, or make light, any kind of flour mixture.

All this time Rome was leavening the nations who had conquered her.

Formerly, it was the custom to mix these leavening substances in this way, and then to add them to the other ingredients.

No leavening except the eggs is used in the recipe for cake of this kind.

The only way the associated life of such a community can be radically improved is by the leavening of the inert popular mass.

So why do we hear so many professors describe their pupils as hostile to learning, with a leavening of indolence?

The leaven, silently but surely, was leavening the surrounding mass.

The mass is leavened only by the leavening of the separate units.

A little leaven is leavening the whole mass for other bread.